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Distribution of Leprosy.
an average, have the smaller ratios.    This will be shown in
tabular form.
TABLE XVI.
Prosperity and Leprosy.
DISTRICT.
Ratio of lepers per 10,000 of population (1872).
Ratio of lepers per 10,000 of population (1881).
Ratio of lepers per 10,000 of population (1891).
REMARKS.
BOMBAY PRESIDENCY.




A.-Poorest District.




Ratnagiri 
12.1
9.3
9.7

Kaladgi    
7.4
2.9
4.1

Ahmednagar
14.0
10.1
7.8

Sholapur   
11.9
6.8
8.0

Satara
11.8
11.0
12.1

Thana
8.3
8.2
6.1

B.-Prosperous Districts.




Kaira
5.2
2.4
1.3

Broach      
5.3
2.5
2.2

Dharwar
11.6
1.8
2.0

Kanara
3.9
1.2
.4

Khandesh*
14.8
14.1
11.6
* Cf.   previous   remarks   on   Khandesh for 1881.
Ahmedabad
2.9
.8
1.0

Belgaum†
10.0(5.1)
3.3
3.3
† Cf.   previous   remarks on the leper
census for Bombay (1872).
It will be seen that, broadly speaking, the ratios under (A)
are higher than those under (B). An absolute harmony can-
not be expected, even if the present theory be correct, as all
figures depend on the uncertainty of a general enumeration,
however slight the errors for a particular district may be ;
again famine may, as was above suggested, reduce the ratios ;
and, thirdly, it is only possible to estimate the well being more
or less approximately. In Kaladgi a great difference is
noticed between the ratios of 1871 and 1881, but perhaps this
is explained by the ravages of the great famine.    Khandesh